2+ hour, 7+ min ago  (549+ words) Consider two numbers, side by side, and keep them in mind as you read news stories about fraud in government-funded services. First number, from a news headline last week: "New DOJ fraud division thwarted $340 M in benefit schemes during first…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (785+ words) Open the Books" investigation found Pennsylvania saw Medicaid payments soar from $5. 6 million to $583 million over seven years. The massive increases should be of particular interest for CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, the former TV personality who claimed the Keystone State…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (221+ words) DHS identified improper Medicaid payments totaling over $408 million in just one year " and only half the payments were recovered. The ongoing scandal regarding Minnesota's welfare-industrial complex demonstrates the extent to which government-created graft has "hidden" in front of the nation's…...

4+ mon, 10+ hour ago  (487+ words) [health insurance form with pen and glasses on table]Many reporters have taken KFF's claim that 'premium payments will double' to mean that total 'premiums will double,' but that's just not true. Many reporters have taken KFF's claim that "premium…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (254+ words) However, one major, and overlooked, problem with these subsidies is how they harmed people with employer-sponsored insurance and created large incentives for small employers to not offer health insurance. If you get employer-sponsored insurance, you get a tax advantage because…...

5+ mon, 2+ day ago  (238+ words) If roughly 1 million people won't even pay $1 per month to enroll in an Exchange plan, what does that say about how Americans view the utility and value of Obamacare? An axiom attributed to libertarian commentator P. J. O'Rourke argues, "If you think…...